Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

Use colr.org to Plan a Color Scheme

Use colr.org to Plan a Color Scheme

Whether you're looking for some help designing the color scheme of a web site, a blog, or a house, you can't do much better than colr.org, a site that loads random Flickr images and intuitively parses the colors out...

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Get Color Codes with ColorZilla

Get Color Codes with ColorZilla

All platforms with Firefox: Designers will love the usefulness of ColorZilla, a Firefox extension that provides color readings in RGB and hexadecimal format. ...

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Turn your staircase into a set of drawers

Turn your staircase into a set of drawers

The Unclutterer weblog points out a really neat home design idea: a staircase that doubles as a set of storage drawers. Each step has its own drawer...

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Create your own web buttons

Create your own web buttons

The aptly named Button Maker lets you whip together custom web buttons, the kind you usually see for RSS feeds and the like. ...

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Stylish Thunderbird message tags

Stylish Thunderbird message tags

Thunderbird user Thomas McMahon whipped up an attractive style for email message tags in the 'bird. ...

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Compare fonts with Typetester

Compare fonts with Typetester

Web site Typetester lets you perform side-by-side comparisons of a number of popular fonts. This is a really handy tool for anyone who scrutinizes over typeface, especially if you're not exactly a font expert. Beyond that, Typetester is great...

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Prettify Google Reader

Prettify Google Reader

Blogger John Hicks, the designer who put together an attractive, OS X-like skin for Bloglines , has now done the same for Google Reader. The tweak works on almost any browser, and the author has detailed instructions for installing...

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Create a comic with ToonDoo

Create a comic with ToonDoo

Create your own cartoon with ToonDoo, a nifty comic strip creator. As you probably can't see from the masterpiece posted above, ToonDoo actually is pretty powerful, as far as comic strip creators go...

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MS Office Tip: Search and replace Word formatting

MS Office Tip: Search and replace Word formatting

Search and replace isn't just for text content; in Microsoft Word, you can search and replace how text looks , too. For example, you can make all the bolded text italicized instead. The secret knob is the More dropdown...

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Create your own Web 2.0 logos

Create your own Web 2.0 logos

Want to create a logo using that hard-to-define but easy-to-recognize Web 2.0 style? Tech blog Hongkiat.com shows you how...

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